Courage, Dan.

If you haven't followed the hullabalo on Dan Rather's, er, retirement, one of the best catalogues of Ratherisms through the years is housed at the indispensable Media Research Center.

There is so much gold at the MRC website, particularly on Dan Rather. But this excerpt has to be my all-time favorite Dan Rather moment:

Bill O’Reilly: “I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?”

Dan Rather: “Yes, I think he’s an honest man.”O’Reilly: “Do you, really?”

Rather: “I do.”

O’Reilly: “Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer’s face about the Lewinsky case?”

Rather: “Who among us has not lied about something?”

O’Reilly: “Well, I didn’t lie to anybody’s face on national television. I don’t think you have, have you?”

Rather: “I don’t think I ever have. I hope I never have. But, look, it’s one thing – “

O’Reilly: “How can you say he’s an honest guy then?”

Rather: “Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”

— Exchange on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, May 15, 2001.

Congratulations to Free Republic for blowing the forged memos issue wide open. It was the typeface heard round the world.

We'll miss ya, Dan. NOT.